01/23/2026
🥶❄️WARMING SHELTERS❄️🥶
Most up to date list as of 3:35PM on Thursday, 1/22/2026:
🧡 Upstate & SC Warming Shelters – This Weekend
These are all services I am currently aware of offering warming shelters.
ADDITIONAL HELP AVAILABLE
- Limited pet boarding assistance available through a local small-business boarder (case-by-case).
- Transportation to warming shelters may be available.
- Please reach out to me directly if you need help with either.
🧡 City of Clemson – Emergency Warming Shelters (2)
If you or someone you know needs a warming shelter, call the non-emergency line: 864-624-2000
This same number can also be used to report after-hours water leaks, downed trees, and power lines.
Important: This is the non-emergency line at the Clemson Police Department.
Emergency warming centers will open Friday (time TBD).
Check-in location: Clemson Police Department
Requirements: ID or name + date of birth (to check for s*x offenders, etc.)
A supervisor will es**rt guests to the Chamber of Commerce Meeting Room.
If capacity is reached, a secondary location will open at Little John Community Center.
Pets are NOT permitted due to allergies.
🧡 Greenville Rescue Mission (Men Only - one source said they were potentially expanding to include women and families with children, but I have not gotten confirmation of that)
575 W Washington Street, Greenville, SC 29601
https://miraclehill.org/shelters/greenville-rescue-mission/
🧡 Miracle Hill Ministries – Women & Children Warming Shelter (Greenville)
11 Regency Hill Drive, Greenville, SC 29607
https://miraclehill.org/shelters/shepherds-gate/
Cold-weather shelter for women and mothers with young children
Opens on nights expected to drop below 40°F
White flag raised outside when open
Currently listed hours: Daily 7:00 AM – 2:00 PM
🧡 The Salvation Army of Greenville County – Warming Shelter
417 Rutherford Street, Greenville, SC 29609
Open to the general public
NO documentation required
Bilingual (English/Spanish)
Opens on nights expected to drop below 40°F
Cold weather shelters run 48 and below, 24 hours and 7 days a week.
There is also a warming and charging station opening Saturday at 10:00 AM. Hours vary.
🧡 Check your appropriate YMCA below for changing details.
•YMCA of Easley:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1c953CieAG/?mibextid=wwXIfr
•YMCA of Pickens:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1AV2oq2v29/?mibextid=wwXIfr
•YMCA of Powdersville:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1DNE3jtjgY/?mibextid=wwXIfr
🧡 HOPE Mission of the Upstate – Warming Shelter (Anderson)
213 S Towers Street, Anderson, SC 29624
Coverage: ANYWHERE in South Carolina
NO documentation required
Open November–March
Opens on nights expected to drop below 38°F
🧡 Hillcrest Baptist Warming Shelter (Williamston)
1300 Anderson Drive, Williamston
Hours: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
🧡 Spartanburg Rescue Mission (Men & Women)
189 N. Forest Street, Spartanburg, SC 29301
https://miraclehill.org/shelters/spartanburg-rescue-mission/
Reported secondhand: may stay open until 10:00 AM, unlike others that close at 7:00 AM
🧡 Extreme Cold Weather Shelter – Spartanburg
701 Saxon Avenue, Spartanburg
Hours: 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
🧡 Volunteer Opportunity – Spartanburg County
If you can volunteer at an emergency operations center, point of distribution, shelter, or with debris operations:
Sign up: https://bttr.im/06aey
🧡 Miracle Hill Ministries – Men’s Warming Shelter (Cherokee County ONLY)
227 Henderson Street, Gaffney, SC 29341
https://miraclehill.org/shelters/cherokee-county/
Men 18+
Driver’s license or photo ID required
Hours: 7:00 PM – 7:00 AM (confirmed by phone)
Opens on nights expected to drop below 40°F
White flag raised when open
🧡 Union County – Officials said it has an emergency shelter plan in place. Should anyone need emergency shelter, contact any law enforcement officer, call 911 or walk up to the police department front door. 911 staff will contact shelter staff, and they will contact you. Please note that road conditions may alter shelter operations.
🧡 Seacoast Church – Winter Warming Center (Summerville)
301 E 5th Street N, Summerville, SC 29483
Coverage: ANYWHERE in South Carolina
Emergency warming center for men, women, families
PETS ARE WELCOME
No documentation required
Season: Dec 1 – Mar 1
Opens on nights at 35°F or below; Check-in 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Guests leave by 7:00 AM
🧡 Hibben United Methodist Church – Emergency Cold Weather Shelter (Mount Pleasant)
690 Coleman Boulevard, Mount Pleasant, SC 29464
Men, women, and children
Warm dinner, breakfast, to-go lunches, showers
No documentation required
Pets NOT allowed
Season: Dec 1 – Mar 15; opens at 34°F or below
Transportation from downtown at 6:30 PM (Pickup: 68 Columbus Street, near Trident Palmer Campus)
Shelter opens at 7:00 PM; Admission 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Guests must leave by 7:00 AM
CARTA provides morning transportation
🧡 Buncombe County (WNC)
Men’s Winter Safe Shelter – 91 New Leicester Highway, Asheville, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Women’s Winter Safe Shelter – 27 Balm Grove Avenue, Asheville, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Transformation Village (Women & children only) – 30 Olin Haven Way, Asheville, 6:00 PM – 7:00 AM
🧡Walhalla High school is also a warming shelter in Oconee County.
The number to the Walhalla EOC is 864-364-5911.
🧡 Sources
sc211.org
miraclehill.org
wspa.com (local news)
Phone calls I personally made- Hannah Smith
